Especially clever

I didn’t have to go to work on Wednesday. We had an “all school test day” and, since I had already taken all of the test, I got to stay at home and work on the school website. It was all highly geeky, and I got a lot of little things done.

We had some really fairly terrible pictures of the faculty on our faculty biography page. They had been on the site for about 9 months. A student took them just a few days before we switched over to the new website last year, and no one had ever gotten around to taking better pictures. Well, I went around on Tuesday and tried to take everyone’s picture, but all I had was the camera on my phone.

It turns out that I have just the right kind of jitter (or maybe scratched lens) to give everyone that “soft lighting” effect. You could also call it, um, blurry. But it turns out that some of us look better blurry, so it’s all good.

Anyway, the new pictures were up for less than a day before one of my students (an especially clever chap) sent me an updated photo of Nathan Bassett (with whom some of you went to college).

I was always taught to get a uv or haze filter to put on the end of your lens, so if there were scratches, it was 20 bucks for a new filter, instead of x amount for a new lens. But I guess they don’t make filters for ilenses, do they?

iLloyd, your pict could use some help. You may want to put in a catch phrase for each teacher. Mr. Lloyd Justin Theodore Sommerer, Jr. -- Looks like a Terrorist; Innovates like Steve Jobs…(I mean this in the nicest way.)

Also, your bio may be more accurate if it says that your family grew tobacco while you were at 4H camps. Hee